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Regarding Johanna Olson-Kennedy, if any federal dollars were used to fund her research she has to share her research.

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$10 million from the NIH.

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If you don't think there's an "enemy within," you're not paying attention. At the highest levels of our law enforcement agencies as well as the CIA, high level officials have been slandering and undermining one duly elected President while propping up another duly elected president. The defining difference between them is that one is a Republican who is hell-bent on cleaning out these agencies of un-elected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are de-facto running the country. The other duly elected president is a Democrat who is so cognitively impaired that the Dems dumped him in favor of a blank slate candidate.

There is a Deep State and it is alive and well in D.C. From the first moments of the Trump administration the Comey, Strozck, Page, cabal and their ilk have been casting aspersions on Trump and thwarting his every move. Now Congress may choose to do that, but at least they were elected. But these bureaucrats operate behind the scenes and wield incredible power. Beware the 51 intelligence and national security experts who attempted to paint Trump as a Russian sympathizer. It was a crock then and it's a crock now but the mainstream press lapped it up and spoon-fed it to their readers and listeners. These same "journalists" printed lies and then appointed themselves "Fact Checkers." Should President Trump win, this charade will begin all over again. But this time, he should request the resignations every high level bureaucrat running every agency. This is not over. Once burned, twice cautious.

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The Democratic Party is demonstrably pro Arab. Character isn’t the issue. Foreign Policy is.

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"Jackson suggested religious exemptions, such as not forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortions, as an example. Harris replied: 'I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.' Granting nationwide abortion access is central to Harris’s campaign—but she doesn’t seem to have much of a plan to achieve that goal."

What are you trying to convey with this last statement? Harris' plan is very clear: absolute legalization of abortion and the suppression of any entity that doesn't comply. California is currently going after a Catholic hospital system with the same goal: no dissent.

And most / all of the writers of the FP want the same thing. They agree that terminating children in the womb and treating human life like a consumer commodity is "a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body." This is the same publication that thinks ending IVF isn't in accord with "normalcy" and whose flagship personalities are manufacturing children to simulate what it's like to be a married couple. Y'all got a weird sense of what's "normal" given that your viewpoints haven't been widely accepted as "just fine" until five minutes ago in human history.

Fall in line with Harris and give her the love she deserves from the FP, don't vaguely criticize her for wanting to actualize what you want to be reality. You're not fooling anyone. But if anyone is willing to admit that the sexual revolution is destroying humanity, you're welcome to inquire about the Church that Harris wants to drive from the public square.

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Qatar meets the US legal standard of a “state sponsor of terrorism”. Why doesn’t the United States take action? Starting with removal of the US military base. This is absurd.

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Neither Trump nor Harris have characters that appeal to centrist voters but it still remains that this portion of the electorate will determine which of the candidates goes to the White House.

Who is elected will determine if the United States maintains its current inertia to the left of the political spectrum or shifts rightwards.

The election of Trump will result in a reduction in the level of control leftist progressives hold over Americas governmental, educational and other public institutions while the election of Harris will reinforce this hold.

The Harris camp posits that a Trump administration will herald the destruction of democracy while the Trump camp believes progressive authoritarianism is doing the same thing.

The progressive element believes that conservatives hold political views that result from their moral and intellectual inferiority while conservatives view progressives as simply bereft of common sense.

Progressives possess the notion that their moral and intellectual supremacy makes them the natural governing class while conservatives reject this conceit.

The coming election will determine whether progressives, who see much of the population as being incapable of determining how their society should be shaped, retain the reigns of power or whether conservatives, who see a populace that will not allow their society be shaped by fiat, will be the preference.

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First we had “Common Sense.” Then we got “The Free Press.” Based on the blatant attempts to influence the upcoming presidential election to the far left, I think we loyal commenters should demand that Commisar Weiss rename this publication “The Freeless Pravda.”

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90% (or maybe 95%) of the commenters convincingly argue for Trump's advantages and Harris's unsuitability for the presidency. TFP journalists probably read the comments. But the arguments don't work on them. In their articles, they criticize Trump (mostly without arguments) and proudly plan to vote for Harris. Why? What bad did Trump do to them and the country is not explained. And they are not some morons, but the cream of American journalism. What can you expect from ordinary Americans who follow events with one eye? America is hanging by a thread. Why, I do not understand.

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Regarding Nick Ayres calling General John Kelly assertion about Trump "patently false," Ayers is a shill for Trump (check his Twitter feed), and his protestations should be weighed in that light.

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Remarks taken out of context mean nothing. If Trump believed that generals should not sabotage and discuss the Commander-in-Chief's orders in the media, but carry them out and report on their implementation, then I think everyone would agree with him. This has nothing to do with democracy, this is the army. The saboteurs who considered themselves smarter and more experienced than Trump were fired, but many of the new ones were no better

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Hmmmmm, let see ; the #1 existential foreign policy issue facing the US today, that will reverberate for the next generation and beyond is the global security/economic/military competition with Russia, China and their authoritarian lemmings. Having lived through the Cold War, Vietnam, post Vietnam, end of Cold War and middle eastern disasters there is no doubt that Harris’ steady leadership involving our allies at all points, building our military infrastructure and domestic war making capacity is essential to winning this next hot/Cold War. TFG is incompetent, incoherent, stupid, ignorant of any historical or geopolitical realities. And his favs are exactly the foes we are battling. So you know what, the writer is not as smart as he thinks he is.

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Unfortunately, this is war, and the gloves are off. The only people who care about sizzling allegations that Trump admires Hitler are the people who thought so before now. Speaking as a card-carrying Jew, the past year has been a coruscating series of embarrassing moral failures demonstrating the utter spineless depravity of progressive sycophants around the world. I'm now 100% onboard with the Zionists who voted for Trump in 2016. I certainly felt differently then, and wondered why so many old Jews, including Holocaust survivors, voted for a guy who often sounded like Mussolini. Welp, I guess they all saw something that I didn't back then. Two other things have changed since 2016: The true face of the Democrat party machine has revealed itself in myriad ways, and Trump's cabinet is likely to be a star-studded roster of true patriots this time--as opposed to the bottom-feeders from his campaign eight years ago. I don't expect miracles from Trump himself, but he is the vanguard for American values these days. Don't shoot the messenger. In the same front page as Oliver's article about Trump's militant rhetoric, I also just read about booksellers pulling ads because the very word "Israel" is now dangerous. And how the UK Labour party is sending a delegation to the US to "help" us vote correctly--just like almost every damn liberal I know feels the need to "help" me vote "in my own best interests" these days. And how Iranian assassins feel that they can target regime critics in New York--now where would they ever get that idea, from Alvin Bragg? I don't think I need any more "help" from the moral midgets on the left to know how to vote, or who is a real threat to democracy.

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Oct 25·edited Oct 25

you are rihgt.

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Two comments:

1. If Jeffrey Goldberg wrote it, it’s a lie.

2. “He’s talked about the “enemy within.” “ - for Trump there ARE enemies within - it’s demonstrably true.

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Bernard-Henri Le'vy's Book: I've read it & it's a must read! I have an historical idea where on Thanksgiving we honor Joseph Goebbels und der Deutche Studentenschaft & hold a book burning on the Washington D.C. Mall of all books written by Jews & Israelis. I'm certain there's no shortage of students & professors from elite universities willing to participate. We could have Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Omar, Tlaib & AOC light the first match. The Rev. Al Sharpton could lead us in prayer.

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That sounds like a Zionist conspiracy to trick the antisemite mobs into buying all the books so they can burn them!

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Trump: He's caustic, abrasive, antagonistic & prone to hyperbole. He thrives on self aggrandizement. So why vote for him? Well we were better off when he was President. The North Korean Midget wasn't sending missiles every which way nor was he sending arms & troops to Russia. Putin refrained from attacking Ukraine & Nazi Iran was bankrupt. Hamas & Hezbollah were still living in their cages. Trump is also a less sophisticated showman than say the Roosevelts, Theodore & Franklin, but a showman none the less. He also deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords, which the Ringling Bros., Biden, Harris, Obuma Circus have, in actions, disparaged. The U.S. wasn't as such a sick society in so many ways. Why then does Harris gain the support of so many Americans? It's partly due to the fact that "many" want a female President even if the candidate is a mannequin. In my mind she's devoid of intelligence, knowledge & common sense. She may well be bright but she presents herself as a dolt. One cannot discount those with Trump Derangement Sydrome. I cannot bring myself to vote for anyone supported by former Vice-President Chainlink & his adorable daughter. The democrats have literally & physically placed a bullseye on Trump's back. Their branding him Hitler is disgusting & reprehensible & tells me that they are a true danger to the Republic.

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Oh dear. Another article I couldn’t bear to read past the first few paragraphs.

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BARI - YOU SHOULD ENDORSE KAMALA HARRIS

BASED ON WHAT ELIE WESEL stated:

"WE MUST ALWAYS TAKE SIDES. NEUTRALITY HELPS THE OPPRESSOR, NEVER THE VICTIM."

HE ALSO SAID, "SOMETIMES WE MUST INTERFERE. wHEN HUMAN LIVES ARE ENDANGERED, WHEN HUMAN DIGNITY IS IN JEOPARDY, NATIONAL BORDERS AND SENSITIVITIES BECOME IRRELEVANT"

Bari, will you use your influence to help her get elected and show your true colors or be a COWARD!

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Barmy post.

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Does TFP have TDS, too?

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